Hello Niall,

as you are the editor of Green News team, I thought I’d reach out to you regarding a great topic for a potential article for Green News.
There is pressure for disposable packaging to be compostable in Ireland. I do agree that there should be a proper end-of-life for disposable packaging other than rubbish, but Green News Team should also support the recent advances in recyclable disposable packaging as well. The “compostable only” approach in the proposed laws in Ireland eliminate the opportunity to take advantage of other innovation that has a better end-of-life story, found in recycling. Green News should help to steer the legislature to the best options.
Traditionally items such as paper cups and takeaway boxes have been coated with polyethylene, and this makes a mixed material that neither the recyclers nor composters want. So it typically winds up in landfill, or burned which releases CO2.

There have been advances in composting by using biopolymers such as PLA, but there are a few drawbacks to these materials. The biopolymer HAS to be industrially composted to break down. Otherwise, it’s just adding plastic to soil. Second, the length of time to compost is far longer than organic matter, so the compost often has a lot of plastic content, which, in San Francisco, has caused the farmers to reject the compost, which then gets landfilled! Also, composting paperboard materials means the materials are used only one time, and then destroyed, while the fibers could be recycled seven times over, into new recycled paperboards. Why use once, and then force more trees to be cut down to replace the lost fibers? Better to reuse seven times.

Recycling of these materials hadn’t been an option until now, as we have created a new coating “EarthCoating” for disposable paperboard packaging that is completely compatible with recycling systems. So now, these materials can be recovered, and reused PROFITABLY by the recycling industry. This is the best-of-life scenario and it’s now available.
The irish government is trying to put through a compostable only law, and it really should be a compostable AND/OR recyclable law so that Ireland can benefit from all innovations to improve the end-of-life of disposable packaging.
You can see the progress in Australia using this coating by going to www.bluebinme.com The rollout of the recyclable paper cups starts August 14.

You can also visit our RECYCLABLE paper cup website at www.recup.co

One of your largest paper cup manufacturers in Ireland, Cup Print www.cupprint.ie will be introducing a recyclable paper cup into the UK in September, however it would be unfortunate that the Irish government actually blocks this product from an Irish manufacturer in Ireland. You should contact them and ask about their efforts to deliver recyclable paper cups.

Well, I beleive you have a great story to cover here, which could help to steer the law properly to all for recycling too, which is a better end-of-life solution for these materials.

I’m happy to be interviewed to help in the creation of an article.

Regards,
Will Lorenzi
Smart Planet
www.recup.earth
will@smartplanettech.com

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as you are the editor of Green News team, I thought I’d reach out to you regarding a great topic for a potential article for Green News.
There is pressure for disposable packaging to be compostable in Ireland. I do agree that there should be a proper end-of-life for disposable packaging other than rubbish, but Green News Team should also support the recent advances in recyclable disposable packaging as well. The “compostable only” approach in the proposed laws in Ireland eliminate the opportunity to take advantage of other innovation that has a better end-of-life story, found in recycling. Green News should help to steer the legislature to the best options.
Traditionally items such as paper cups and takeaway boxes have been coated with polyethylene, and this makes a mixed material that neither the recyclers nor composters want. So it typically winds up in landfill, or burned which releases CO2.

There have been advances in composting by using biopolymers such as PLA, but there are a few drawbacks to these materials. The biopolymer HAS to be industrially composted to break down. Otherwise, it’s just adding plastic to soil. Second, the length of time to compost is far longer than organic matter, so the compost often has a lot of plastic content, which, in San Francisco, has caused the farmers to reject the compost, which then gets landfilled! Also, composting paperboard materials means the materials are used only one time, and then destroyed, while the fibers could be recycled seven times over, into new recycled paperboards. Why use once, and then force more trees to be cut down to replace the lost fibers? Better to reuse seven times.

Recycling of these materials hadn’t been an option until now, as we have created a new coating “EarthCoating” for disposable paperboard packaging that is completely compatible with recycling systems. So now, these materials can be recovered, and reused PROFITABLY by the recycling industry. This is the best-of-life scenario and it’s now available.
The irish government is trying to put through a compostable only law, and it really should be a compostable AND/OR recyclable law so that Ireland can benefit from all innovations to improve the end-of-life of disposable packaging.
You can see the progress in Australia using this coating by going to www.bluebinme.com The rollout of the recyclable paper cups starts August 14.

You can also visit our RECYCLABLE paper cup website at www.recup.co

One of your largest paper cup manufacturers in Ireland, Cup Print www.cupprint.ie will be introducing a recyclable paper cup into the UK in September, however it would be unfortunate that the Irish government actually blocks this product from an Irish manufacturer in Ireland. You should contact them and ask about their efforts to deliver recyclable paper cups.

Well, I beleive you have a great story to cover here, which could help to steer the law properly to all for recycling too, which is a better end-of-life solution for these materials.

I’m happy to be interviewed to help in the creation of an article.

Regards,
Will Lorenzi
Smart Planet
www.recup.earth
will@smartplanettech.com
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